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Recommended measures (7)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Culture
  The State party should adopt a specific plan of action to combat violence against women and girls that focuses on the elimination of rape and …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should increase the allocation of human, technical and financial resources, including to the National Criminal Investigation Service (Kripos), to improve the protection …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should amend section 291 of the Penal Code to ensure that the lack of free consent is at the centre of the …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should undertake awareness-raising campaigns to encourage reporting, with specific components targeted at boy victims, and ensure accessible, confidential, child-friendly and effective reporting …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should undertake research and develop specific measures to prevent sexual abuse and exploitation of children by other children and ensure that perpetrators …
• Type of action: Statistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that data collected on sexual abuse and exploitation of children are disaggregated by age, sex, disability, geographical location, ethnic and …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should accelerate its efforts to ratify the Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse.

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should increase its efforts to promote positive, non-violent and participatory forms of child-rearing and discipline, with the cooperation of the media and …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTraining and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should ensure that children have access to a helpline available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, as well as to …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesTeaching and curriculumResponsible ministries: Ministry of Education and Research
  The State party should in the light of information before the Committee indicating that students have on occasion been subjected to violence from adults in …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Education and Research
  The State party should ensure that child victims of violence and abuse are provided with adequate support at the municipal level and strengthen the capacities …

Recommended measures (5)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and FamiliesMinistry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should increase its efforts to strengthen compliance in practice with the child’s right to be heard, in particular with regard to children …
• Type of action: Training and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public SecurityMinistry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Health and Care ServicesMinistry of Education and ResearchMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that relevant professionals are regularly trained on implementing an age-appropriate, meaningful and empowered participation of children in decisions affecting their …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Justice and Public Security
  The State party should strengthen the implementation of the child’s right to be heard in asylum and expulsion procedures affecting children, particularly with respect to …
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that children are informed about the possibility of participating in mediation processes in the context of their parents’ separation.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Local Government and ModernisationMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should increase its efforts to ensure the meaningful participation of children in youth councils or other forums accessible to all children in …

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should establish clear criteria regarding the best interests of the child for all authorities that take decisions affecting children.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that this right is appropriately integrated and consistently interpreted and applied in all legislative, administrative and judicial proceedings and decisions, …

Recommended measures (3)

• Type of action: Laws and regulationsPolicies, strategies, and action plansPractices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should implement effective legal, policy and practical measures to address multiple and intersectional forms of discrimination.
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Education and Research
  The State party should take specific measures to promote full-time employment opportunities in the public and private sectors for women with disabilities, including by improving …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The State party should mainstream a gender perspective into disability studies and include the rights of women and girls with disabilities in gender equality and …

Recommended measures (10)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should ensure that every competent patient, whether admitted voluntarily or involuntarily, is fully informed about the treatment to be prescribed, including shielding, …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should promote psychiatric care aimed at preserving the dignity of patients, both adults and minors, and continue its efforts to end the …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesLaws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should employ coercive measures in mental health care only in compliance with human rights standards and prescribe by law any derogations to …
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should ensure that non-consensual coercive measures are formally registered and patients are informed about them in writing.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should ensure that non-consensual psychiatric treatment, if applied at all, is only used in exceptional cases as a measure of last resort, …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should provide clear and detailed regulations on the use of restraints, including restraint beds, and other coercive methods in psychiatric institutions, with …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should establish clear and effective procedural safeguards for patients, including provisions in law for assisted decision-making by proxy and effective complaints mechanisms, …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsStatistics and researchResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should strengthen the regulatory framework and stipulate in law the circumstances allowing for the limited use of coercive electroconvulsive treatment, and establish …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should consider incorporating into law the abolition of the enforced administration of intrusive and irreversible treatments, such as electroconvulsive therapy.
• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The State party should provide redress and rehabilitation to persons subjected to abusive and arbitrary non-consensual psychiatric treatment without procedural safeguards and independent supervision.

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Culture
  The Committee recommends that the State party take all steps necessary to secure and promote inclusive and accessible facilities for recreational, leisure and sporting activities, …

Recommended measures (2)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should ensure that accessible and inclusive community support and safeguard mechanisms are available for parents with disabilities to support them in the …
• Type of action: Laws and regulationsResponsible ministries: Ministry of Children and Families
  The State party should take measures to ensure that the removal of children from their parents on the basis of their parents’ or their own …

Recommended measures (1)

• Type of action: Practices and guidelinesResponsible ministries: Ministry of Health and Care Services
  The Committee recommends that the State party adopt effective measures to ensure respect for the right of persons with disabilities, particularly women and children, to …

Recommended measures (4)

• Type of action: Statistics and researchResourcesResponsible ministries: Ministry of CultureMinistry of Children and Families
  The State party should allocate resources for research into the root causes and possible impact of oversexualized representations of girls in the media and the …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansStatistics and researchTraining and capacity buildingResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should research and develop specific measures on how to address the particular difficulties and discrimination faced by many children with an immigrant …
• Type of action: Policies, strategies, and action plansResponsible ministries: Ministry of CultureMinistry of Labour and Social Affairs
  The State party should develop a new plan of action for promoting gender equality and preventing ethnic discrimination.
• Type of action: Awareness-raising and disseminationResponsible ministries: Ministry of Labour and Social AffairsMinistry of Culture
  The State party should take awareness-raising measures to foster tolerance and openness about non-conformity with gender stereotypes and the harmful effects of social pressure, targeting …